Amisha Patel's career is flat lining. And to add a slap to her injury, Vidya Balan has stolen her (distant) thunder in the film Bhool Bhulaiyaa.
The posters of Bhool have Vidya Balan sitting next to Akshay Kumar, while Amisha is flanked by character actors Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Manoj Joshi and Paresh Rawal.
These actors are surprisingly not complaining to being lined up next to Miss Patel. Really, who needs to be more offended here?
However, Amisha is plenty pissed with director Priyadarshan. Wouldn't you be as well if work was sparse and hits unheard of, and then some chick upstages you in your next film?
Even though Amisha is paired opposite the main lead Akshay Kumar in Bhool Bhulaiyaa, she has been elbowed to the back row by Vidya Balan.
Some quick pointers: Bhool Bhulaiyaa is a rip off from the original Malayalam film Manachitratazu, which was also remade in Tamil (Chandramukhi).
In the story, the role played by the character paired opposite the second male lead is far larger than the woman opposite the main male lead. (Please read it again to get the point, really, there is one). And according to that, the story is really about Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan and Shiney Ahuja.
So basically, Amisha's there more for balancing the estrogen on the sets than for any real 'role driven' contribution in the film.
And every Bollywood film needs the main lead to have a love interest. How else would they portray him as the troubled but soulful kind but misunderstood sympathy factory?
Also, you just can't cast Akshay Kumar in a film without a couple of chicks hanging on for dear (professional) life on every word he blurts!
Text: The Bombay Bitch
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